Can't connect to wifi (managed network)

Hi All,

I just bought 2 acer aspire ones (1 for my wife, 1 for my mother in law).

As in certain other linux distros, there is NO setting available for type of wireless network: managed, ad-hoc, master, etc.

At work and at home, my wireless network is "managed". I can connect with no trouble at all through Mandriva, PCLOS, and a host of other linux distros. But not Linpus Linux! (Nor a host of different linux distros, for that matter.)

Can anyone offer any advice on this at all? Either the computers go back, or I have to buy an external CD drive to test different linux distros.

Thanks.

D.